What knowledge level should an attendee have?
Beginner on up, however having at least 1-2 completed web projects under your belt will be beneficial as base process to reference.
What knowledge should an attendee walk away with?
In this talk you’re going to walk away with a better process for developing & presenting design concepts to your web clients, and the value in presenting smaller pieces of a broader design system, instead relying on the great “pull back the curtain” reveal.
What is the talk about?
This talk is to serve as an introduction/overview into the world of Style Guides for web projects, instead of relying on pages & pages of static design mockups. We’re going learn why static mockups don’t always work, why they don’t scale, and why it’s better to develop reusable components in defining your responsive visual design language.
– Why are style tiles/guides needed? What problems do they solve?
– What are the core components of a style tile?
– How do they fit into a design process?
– How do they benefit project stakeholders such as clients, developers, project managers?
Why are you passionate about this talk?
I think great design is truly the sum of it’s parts, but spending too much time on “pixels perfect” mockups takes focus away from the project as a whole. I want to arm designers/developers/clients with a better approach that will allow them to focus their attention on the big picture, and save them from hours of mind numbing design reviews and massive PDF files.